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Article: Use of inhalants is tied to cataracts in study Steroids used forasthma relief appear to cause problems of their own
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1997
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Copyright informationCopyright 1997 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Millions of asthma sufferers who use steroid inhalants may
increase their risk of cataracts, a study says.
The study, conducted in Australia on older adults, found that
users of inhaled steroids had double the usual risk of the most
common type of serious cataracts.
Asthma experts, however, cautioned that patients should not stop
taking their steroid drugs without first consulting their doctors.
Another recent study, by researchers from McGill University in
Montreal, suggested that heavy use of the inhalants by older people
might raise the risk of glaucoma, another eye disease.
Injected steroids long have been linked with cataracts. Until
now, however, there has been no strong evidence ...
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